Hi Mark,
After doing some more testing, I observed that its still happening that the
background service sometime runs and sometime doesn't run. However this
time, the number of time the service gets run has increased :)
public class BootCompletedIntentReceiver extends IntentReceiver {
/* the intent source*/
static final String ACTION = "android.intent.action.BOOT_COMPLETED";
private static final String LOG_TAG = "BootCompletedIntentReceiver";
@Override
public void onReceiveIntent(Context context, Intent intent) {
if (intent.getAction().equals(ACTION))
{
// Once we receive the BOOT_COMPLETED intent, we will start a service
that
// will start a service which in turn will run alarm manager
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setClassName("com.smartaddress",
"com.smartaddress.AddressLogService");
Bundle b = new Bundle();
ComponentName cname = context.startService( i,b );
if( cname == null )
Log.e( LOG_TAG,"AddressLogService was not started" );
else
Log.d( LOG_TAG,"AddressLogService started" );
}
}
}
public class AddressLogService extends Service {
private static final String LOG_TAG = "BackgroundService";
@Override
protected void onStart(int startId, Bundle arguments) {
super.onStart( startId, arguments );
Log.d( LOG_TAG, "onStart" );
Intent i = new Intent();
i.setClassName("com.smartaddress",
"com.smartaddress.AddressLoggerIntent");
long firstTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
// Schedule the alarm!
AlarmManager am = (AlarmManager)getSystemService(ALARM_SERVICE);
am.setRepeating(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP,
firstTime, 10 *1000, i);
}
@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
return null;
}
}
public class AddressLoggerIntent extends IntentReceiver
{
private static final String LOG_TAG = "AddressLoggerIntent";
@Override
public void onReceiveIntent(Context context, Intent intent)
{
Log.v(LOG_TAG, "AddressLogger Service Started");
// Logic
}
}
Any idea why it is happening now ? I am confused and a little frustated now
with this random behavior.
Thanks,
Jaikishan
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Jaikishan Jalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Super! Thanks Mark, your suggestion helped me to reduce the redudancy of
> my code. Now my code works perfectly fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Jaikishan
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Mark Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Jaikishan Jalan wrote:
>> > Alright. I guess I jumped in too quickly to shot out my problem . I
>> > figured out a way (of course with the help of all you beautiful people
>> > :) ) to run my service in background. What I have done is I first call a
>> > service from my intent receiver. This service in turns creates an
>> > instance of Alarm Manager. Since Alarm Manager broadcasts an intent, I
>> > have another intent receiver, which receives this intent and run a
>> > service which will do run my logic. It seems to work for me but not sure
>> > if this is the most efficient and recommendable way to do this.
>>
>> As hackbod indicated, the next SDK may allow you to drop the second
>> IntentReceiver outright, due to improvements in AlarmManager.
>>
>> In the interim...you seem to have twice as many IntentReceivers and
>> Services than would seem necessary.
>>
>> If this were my app, I would aim for:
>>
>> -- IntentReceiver (A) receives the BOOT_COMPLETED Intent and uses that
>> to start the service
>>
>> -- Service (B), on startup, registers an inner class IntentReceiver via
>> registerReceiver() for my private Intent, then sets up AlarmManager to
>> raise that Intent every N minutes, with the inner class IntentReceiver
>> doing the desired work.
>>
>> Then, if that worked, I'd try to get rid of (A) by registering the
>> BOOT_COMPLETED intent-filter on (B), to see if I can knock this down to
>> a single service class (plus an inner IntentReceiver class).
>>
>> --
>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy)
>> http://commonsware.com
>> Android Training on the Ranch in September! http://www.bignerdranch.com
>>
>> >>
>>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jaikishan
>
--
Thanks,
Jaikishan
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